Martin Macdonald

 
Martin Macdonald • MartinMac1 Football Expert & Football Transfers Live Blog Editor
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Football Transfers Live Blog Editor with almost 10 years experience in producing up-to-the-minute live action around European football and beyond. Regular FootballCritic contributor.

Articles written by Martin Macdonald

Bundesliga

Hazard twists Gladbach inside out for Bundesliga Goal of the Week

The Belgian scored a quite brilliant goal against his former club as Dortmund won 2-1

  • 4 years
Ligue 1

Magical Maouassa scores Ligue 1 Goal of the Week

Rennes demolished Montpellier 5-0, with the 21-year-old scoring the goal of the game, and the weekend

  • 4 years
Championship

Championship: Superb Smith is Millwall's hat-trick hero

Two Stoke stars also make our Top Five after the demolition of Hull

  • 4 years
Ligue 1

Ligue 1: Rajkovic reigns for Reims as PSG game is postponed

The Serbian stopper was in brilliant form, but the champions didn't play due to coronavirus fears

  • 4 years
La Liga

La Liga: Messi saves Barca blushes...again

After the Clasico defeat to Real Madrid, the Blaugrana got back to winning ways thanks to their captain

  • 4 years
Bundesliga

Bundesliga: Paulinho propels Leverkusen into Champions League places

The Brazilian tops the rankings for this round of Bundesliga fixtures

  • 4 years
Five Games to Watch

Five Games to Watch: Manchester Derby, and the Prague Derby!

Plus Serie A and Liga fixtures with Champions League qualification connotations

  • 4 years
Goals of the Week

European Goals of the Week, 6 Mar: Mbappe dismantles Lyon

The PSG star was in frightening form in the Coupe de France

  • 4 years
Coupe de France

Magnificent Mbappe lights up Coupe de France semis

The PSG superstar was in brilliant form as Lyon were dumped out of the competition

  • 4 years
DFB-Pokal

Bravo to Batz as he is the DFB-Pokal Player of the Round

The Saarbrucken goalkeeper led the fourth-tier side to the semi-final for the first time in 35 years

  • 4 years
Football You Missed

Football You Missed, 4 Mar: Goalkeeper saves FIVE penalties to send minnows to German Cup semi

Fourth tier Saarbrucken were the first team to join Bayern Munich in the last four

  • 4 years
Ligue 1

Ounas oozes class to earn Ligue 1 Goal of the Week

Nice drew 1-1 away at Bordeaux, with their equalising goal coming courtesy of a spectacular bicycle kick

  • 4 years
Premier League

Jota and Jimenez combine for best Premier League Goal of the Week

In a thrilling game against Tottenham, Wolves won 3-2 against Jose Mourinho's side, with the Mexican scoring the winner

  • 4 years
Bundesliga

Thommy guns down Hertha for Bundesliga Goal of the Week

In a six-goal thriller in the German top-flight, the Dusseldorf winger scored a beauty from the left wing

  • 4 years
Serie A

Vote Pedro for Serie A Goal of the Week

Cagliari may have lost 4-3 against Roma, but the goal of the game was scored by Joao Pedro

  • 4 years
Championship

Grant grants Huddersfield victory to become Championship Player of the Week

Plus a couple of Derby stars make the cut after impressively defeating Sheffield Wednesday away

  • 4 years
RFPL

Lutsenko tops RFPL rankings for Arsenal Tula

Sochi were defeated 2-1 at home after an awful mistake by the goalkeeper and one of his defenders in the last minute

  • 4 years
Eredivisie

Koopmeiners tops Eredivisie rankings as AZ shock Ajax

In the top-of-the-table clash on Sunday, AZ won 2-0 at the home of the champions

  • 4 years
Serie A

Ilicic and Zapata excel for amazing Atalanta in Serie A Top 3

La Dea put seven past Lecce at the weekend, taking their tally to 70 goals in 25 matches for the season

  • 4 years
Ligue 1

Mbappe and Benedetto earn perfect ratings in Ligue's Top 5 Players of the Week

The PSG superstar and the Marseille striker both scored a FootballCritic rating of 10 after their showings this weekend

  • 4 years
La Liga

La Liga: Oliver & Co superb for Sevilla but which Clasico player was star man?

The biggest match of the weekend may have seen Real Madrid beat Barcelona 2-0, but there was better quality to be found elsewhere...

  • 4 years
Bundesliga

Bundesliga: Stindl best of the Bundesliga but Bayern players dominate again

The Gladbach striker was the match winner as Augsburg were defeated 3-2

  • 4 years
Premier League

Superstar Sarr ends Liverpool unbeaten run for best Premier League performance of the week

The Senegalese put in his best showing in a Watford shirt as Jurgen Klopp's side were finally defeated

  • 4 years
Team Performances

Man Utd put in Performance of the Week after humbling of Club Brugge

The Red Devils scored five on the night as they comfortably progressed in the Europa League

  • 4 years
Goals of the Week

European Goals of the Week, 28 Feb: Aubameyang's wonder strike in vain for Arsenal

In a week unusually bereft of top class goals, a beauty from the Gunners' talisman stood out

  • 4 years